Car6on14 Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 (edited) anyone here try acetone? http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2005...900069_Acetone/ NOTICE there are tons of articles online saying this works its great and or its terrible and will ruin your car, I dont want to be responsible for anyones car. But With that said I had a bottle and it seemed to work, but I didnt buy more after it was empty, its pretty expensive and im still getter better gas mi after stopping adding, I think it just cleaned the injectors in my (1984) camry... I ran 1/2 oz to about 5 gal. for about 6 months, I went through about a 20 oz bottle of it. Just filling to half a tank helped me get better mi... Just wondered if anyone else tried it. Edited June 4, 2008 by Car6on14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89PalermoSHP Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 o boy... not again lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 i looked into it a lot but never tried it. in theory it works because it changes the surface tension of the fuel but my commute is only 7miles and most of the time i ride motorcycles so it wasnt worth the risk since i already get 50+mpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyP Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 :deadhorse: can we please let this one die? not the thread per se, but the subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naughty_auty Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 I did work for me but the truck's computer would eventually richen up the mix due to the O2 also use a tank every three days 80 bucks a tank do the math :confused0024: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliber308 Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 Sinclair Premium Unleaded is all I use CALIBER 308 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlattopMike Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 (edited) I tried it. There was some concern about the acetone eating gaskets and such so I tried it on my company car that I don't have to repair. :eek1bluegreen: I saw an increase of only .2 mpg and I contribute that to the fact that I wanted it to work and probably drove a little bit better. Basically, it didn't work. Edited June 4, 2008 by FlattopMike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiplash Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 Another thing to keep in mind is that whenever you do a change to the engine it takes the computer 50 starts (usually about 3 tanks of fuel) to mean it out. So it's best to reset the computer after any mods. Back in the 1980's some customers tried the Acetone stuff. After about 6 months the seals in the fuel lines were flaking and clogging up the injectors. Also some of the rubber was turning into jelly. I don't remember if it helped with fuel mpg. I would think todays rubber is better than then. I wouldn't try it unless I had a Flex-Fuel system. Or upgraded my rubber and seals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Car6on14 Posted June 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 thx for the responses, and sorry that this was already posted, i musta missed the thread. I guess overall seems to good to be true... and doesnt work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 thx for the responses, and sorry that this was already posted, i musta missed the thread. I guess overall seems to good to be true... and doesnt work. dont be, there are a few topics that come and go very often, like prelude headlights, dohc heads yada yada. water4gas.com and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbrad511 Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 When I saw that first thread on this I figured "why not", so I gave it a shot in my truck. Gas mileage did pick up about 20 per tank, and it seemed a bit more powerful. I ran a few tanks with it and then kinda lost interest. Seeing the talk about damaging seals, I also, each time, put a shot of Lucas in with it. I need fuel now, maybe I'll try it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig87 Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 If i had a car without an o2 sensor I would try it. Anything obdII will get the afr back in line with in seconds no need for the old drive cycle counts. but like shift My commute is short and mostly on two wheels so gas hasn't hurt me to bad YET. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pure_insanity Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 When I saw that first thread on this I figured "why not", so I gave it a shot in my truck. Gas mileage did pick up about 20 per tank, and it seemed a bit more powerful. I ran a few tanks with it and then kinda lost interest. Seeing the talk about damaging seals, I also, each time, put a shot of Lucas in with it. I need fuel now, maybe I'll try it again. my question is this. is it worth buying the acetone to only average out 20 miles to the tank? im guessing your truck is a 20 gal tank and that just doesnt sound like it works out good enough to be worth it, and plus if you need to run some lucas to take care of those seals, you may as well just run high test and be done with it. on the other hand, they did test it on mythbusters and actually said it was a "plausible" thing. the engine they were testing on did show some improvements in the way it ran. however they had nothing to test fuel mileage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbrad511 Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 my question is this. is it worth buying the acetone to only average out 20 miles to the tank? im guessing your truck is a 20 gal tank and that just doesnt sound like it works out good enough to be worth it, and plus if you need to run some lucas to take care of those seals, you may as well just run high test and be done with it. on the other hand, they did test it on mythbusters and actually said it was a "plausible" thing. the engine they were testing on did show some improvements in the way it ran. however they had nothing to test fuel mileage. I buy the big bottles of Lucas and use it maybe once a month anyway. The acetone (qt can) was like $6 and will do several tanks, if I were going to use it regularly. I run 92-93 in everything. My motors seem to run better than the lower grades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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